The Trump administration ordered an aging coal-fired power plant in Colorado to stay open on Tuesday, a day before it was set to be retired.
The order from Energy Secretary Chris Wright will keep the nearly 50-year-old Craig Generating Station Unit 1 in northwest Colorado operating until the end of March, with an option to extend it further.
It’s the Department of Energy’s sixth such move this year; Wright has also ordered two coal plants in Indiana, one in Michigan and one in Washington state to stay open past their retirement dates, as well as a Pennsylvania power plant that runs on oil.
“Keeping this coal plant online will ensure Americans maintain an affordable, reliable, and secure supply of electricity,” Wright said in a statement.
Ok… surely then it would just cost less to install a harmless dark smoke emitter at the top of the coal powerplant cooling stack and hire a bunch of actors to pretend they are running a coal powerplant and just let Trump think it is still open right?
Seriously, is anyone in the Trump administration actually even smart enough to tell?
Invest the money saved in more cost efficient alternative energy and everybody wins! Including actors! They need jobs too…
I mean honestly it would be a perfect job for Homer Simpson and what could be more American than that?